S88 part 3: General and Site Recipes

ISA has recently accepted part 3 of the S88 standard. It is expected that this part will be accepted by ANSI towards the end of 2003. Possibly IEC will accept it towards April 2004.

Part 1 compared to part 3

Part 3 provides companies with a detailed definition of the contents of a General Recipe. Part 1 of S88 gives only very little information about this kind of S88 Recipe, because part 1 is focused on ‘Batch Control’. But end-users needed a standard focused on corporate management of product information. That is the reason why part 3 was developed.

General Recipes

General Recipes contain general information about the production of a product. The information in General Recipes is needed at different Sites. Every site has its own characteristics, for example capacity, unities of measurement and language. Nevertheless, the enterprise wants to be able to produce the same product at different sites. Part 3 of the S88 standard provides the solution to this problem.

Contents of part 3

Part 3 focuses on General Recipes. It defines the information that a General Recipe should contain. It also defines some standard symbols for the depiction of General Recipes. This can lead towards a lot of advantages, such as reduction of the problems caused by differences in languages. Part 3 also defines a standard methodology to convert General Recipes (General Product Information) to Master Recipes (Control of the equipment used to produce a product).

Advantages

General Recipes enable enterprises to work with a corporate product description, which can be used at different sites. They also make it possible to transform this information in a standardized way into Master Recipes, used for the control of specific equipment. This way it becomes easier for R&D and production to communicate, even if these departments are situated in different countries where people speak different languages.

More information

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